![]() ![]() How Moore and Gibbons conceive of characters through their revision of novelistic polyphony reveals an alternative explanation of unfinalizability than the one Bakhtin articulated about Dostoevsky's characters. However, polyphony expressed in the graphic dimension brings new layer of meaning to philosophical implications of polyphony. My research first argues that the poetics of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's groundbreaking graphic novel, Watchmen (1986-87), is also polyphonic. Humans, therefore, are what Bakhtin calls unfinalizable. Soviet litterateur Mikhail Bakhtin saw that Dostoevsky's poetics conceived of characters' consciousnesses that resisted ideological immanence by continually reacting to any limiting descriptions placed on oneself. ![]() Polyphonic poetics is a reaction against authors dictating the thoughts of characters to support their own worldview and denying them a human being's innate free consciousness. ![]()
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